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Nicole’s Story

My husband and I first started dating when we were 15, always knowing that we both wanted a family. After we were married in our late 20s, it was only about 6 months before we decided that we would like to start a family. We were blessed with a baby girl in 2011 and a baby boy in 2013. Back then, having our babies was seemed so easy. We had no complications with either pregnancy and felt so fortunate to have these two healthy babies. We both come from families of 3 and felt strongly that our family was not complete. In 2015 we started trying for our third and assumed it would come easily as it had before. However, this time was different. We tried ...

Testimony Tuesday {Katie’s Retreat Experience}

I had just survived the first year without our deeply longed for son and I felt ready to connect with other moms who, like myself, had faced unthinkable tragedy and yet still chose to trust in our Lord and Savior. I wanted to hear from mothers who were further down the road of grief than I was, hoping they would reassure me that the incapacitating weight I’d been carrying would somehow lighten over time. I knew that the burden of living the rest of my earthly life without my son would never go away, but I needed to see in the flesh, these moms who had survived what felt impossible to me. I’d been in a deep cave of darkness for over ...

Anne’s Story

A year after Nate and I married, we found out that I was pregnant with our first precious life. Twelve weeks into that pregnancy, we learned that our baby no longer had a heartbeat, and my heart felt like its own pulse was forever altered. Two and a half months after our miscarriage, I found out I was pregnant again. There was an excitement and renewed hope I hadn’t tasted in months, and yet a crouching, nagging hesitation left me anxious to grasp onto any certainty that this little one’s life would not end in another miscarriage. My desire to have certainty clouded any ability to see and handle the brutal reality that I have never been, nor ...

Get to Know Her: 2017 Retreat Speaker

I sat down to exhale. The sticky plastic chairs of the Pediatric ICU waiting room offered little comfort, but I didn’t really care. I just needed a place away from the chest tubes and breathing tubes and feeding tubes and the beep-beep-beep of the monitors. For just a minute. I had been immersed in my own pain for a few days. We had gone in to close the hole that my girl’s first tracheostomy had left in her neck, but recovery did not go as planned. Instead, my baby girl went blue and looked at me with searing panic in her eyes—and I ran into the sterile hallway and broke the late night silence with a yell for help. So, we wheeled back to ...

Asheley’s Story

My husband and I have a daughter, Harper who is 2 years old. I had been diagnosed with PCOS and Endometriosis before my daughter was born. She was actually our miracle baby. We worked for months before she was born on determining a diagnosis. I remember being devastated at the doctor’s office finding out we would need help to conceive our first child. To our great surprise, we were actually pregnant during the consultation with our doctor.   When Harper was 16 months old, we decided we wanted to expand our family. We consulted with our doctor who helped us find the right path to start the process. I vividly remember a few months later the ...

Get to Know Her: 2017 Retreat Worship Leader

I feel so humbled and honored to be leading worship for the Hope Mommies retreat this spring. I know this will be a sacred time and a sacred space. To be invited into your suffering and loss, and to worship with you in the midst of that loss, is a privilege I do not take lightly. The Hope Mommies leadership asked me to introduce myself to you, so I wanted to share with you a bit of my story. And I am looking forward to getting to know each of you too. If you look me up on Instagram, you’ll see this line in my profile: “Mom. Wife. Song writer. Song singer. Telling the Story.” And I think that’s a pretty good description of what ...

Berklye’s Story

Going down this journey opened up a whole new community that I did not know existed. You grow up thinking, Okay I’ll find the right guy, get married and then have children. It never even crosses your mind that you could lose a child. But there are so many mothers out there who do and it needs to be talked about. I find just sharing your story can make all the difference in the world. I am lucky to call my soulmate my middle school sweetheart.  We met in our sixth grade math class and have been together ever since. I know now looking back, God had destined for us to meet so early because of the bond we would need to face the road ahead. ...

Links for Hope Moms: January Edition

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, and resources from around the web to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve. {"Even If He Doesn't," via Your Mom Has a Blog} // "When the bad things come, when the kind of rescue we think we need just isn’t part of our story, will we be able to testify before a watching world that God can do it, that He will do it, but even if He doesn’t, we won’t turn away. We won’t lose hope. We won’t lose faith. And, we will say forever and ever, He is good. " {"God Did Not Forget Naomi," via Of Larks} // "I want to sing praise ...

Donnie’s Story

May 13, 2014 started out like any other day…I dropped off my oldest at school and the two younger boys at daycare.  At the time, my daughter Lilly was 7, David was 3, and Matthew was almost 4 months old, he was born on January 14, 2014.  My family felt complete.  I was the happiest I had ever been, content with life.  Later that morning I was told I was needed in the conference room at work; there I met two police officers who told me my son Mathew had passed away at daycare.  Shock immediately set in.  I didn’t know what to think, what to feel, or what to do.  The next few days and weeks were a blur; devastation, hopelessness, sorrow, ...

Testimony Tuesday {Jacquelyn’s Retreat Experience}

My name is Jacquelyn Hayden, Hope Mom to Beanie (7 week loss), Nole (7 weeks 3 day loss), and Case (28 week preemie who passed away at 10 days old).  All of my losses happened between November 2012 and November 2013.  I found out about Hope Mommies after Case passed away, because a coworker of my sister-in-law sent me a Hope Box.  It meant the world to me to receive something during that time, especially something from a stranger that was filled with so much love, hope, and care.  A few months later, I found the Hope Mommies Facebook group, learned more about the organization, and also found out about the annual retreats.  I did not feel I was ...